Practicing Parsing

parse:a: to divide (a sentence) into grammatical parts and identify the parts and their relations to each otherb: to describe (a word) grammatically by stating the part of speech and explaining the inflection and syntactical relationships– Merriam Webster

What? There’s no third and fourth meanings, along these lines?

c: to get the meaning of words laid out in a nonstandard order

d: to get the meaning of a word constructed of two or more words by correctly breaking it into the component words

With respect to Mssrs. Merriam and Webster, I believe these activities, so much in demand in the modern world, ought to be called parsing.

For the former meaning I offer the quintessential example: the Automatic Caution Door.